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The Vandelles are hittin' the road and headed to Toronto June 15th! Come on out, Canada!  http://www.last.fm/event/3284700+NXNE

Free outdoor show with Twin Tigers in Athens

Playing tonight with Twin Tigers Outer Spaces and Roverta & Charlene at Farm 255 in downtown Athens, here's the fb invite http://www.facebook.com/events/189509234497225/

Pack your bags--We're going on tour!

Announcing The Vandelles' Super Last-Minute Tour!

Coming soon to a town near you, completely unexpectedly.

You may think you know all there is to know about The Vandelles--Brooklyn's surf psych-noir rockers, etc., etc. What you didn't know is that they are secretly ninjas and are invading a town near you when you least expect it. But they also want people to show up to their shows, so we're telling you when they'll be playing. Just act surprised, okay?

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3/13 San Antonio, TX: Boneshakers Bicycle Pub Show starts at 9pm; Vandelles at 1am

3/16 Austin, TX: SxSw Showcase: Chevrolet Sound Garage 8:45pm

3/17 Austin, TX: SxSw Casa Chapala Mexican Grill 3:30pm

3/18 New Orleans, LA: 91.5 FM Block Party 6pm

3/18 New Orleans, LA: Circle Bar 10:30pm

3/19 Chattanooga, TN: JJ's Bohemia Time TBA

3/22 Athens, GA: Farm 255 Time TBA

3/24 Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Record Fest 11:59pm

Join the Facebook Event Page for the Tour to get updates on more last minute mayhem:

http://www.facebook.com/events/387410221270287/

Listen to Strange Girls Don't Cry on our SX page

We're playing the chevy sound garage on friday at SXSW, they've posted an unreleased song from our new album check it out

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MS18864/

Tonight in Williamsburg

we're on at 1030

Watch us play impromptu on the street in Kensington Market

HeartStrings TV shot us playing a couple songs, check it out at http://www.heartstringstv.com/episodes/thevandelles-offstage-summerfling.html#.TsahuoxRozI.twitter

"Lovely Weather" Tonight on ABC's Body of Proof

Sandwiched between Dancing with the Stars and Jimmy Kimmel Live, 10pm 9c...http://abc.go.com/shows/body-of-proof. Lots of other great music on the show tonight too...@rayraysaadiq @blakeshelton@PeterBjornJohn @jjheller

The Phoenix calles us "Technicolor Noir"

If you were listening to the audio version of this interview, you might find yourself sifting through lots of reverb and the rumble of a passing motorcycle. You might have to strain your ears a little bit. But lucky for us, the words are behaving themselves well enough to give us a clear snapshot of the fast-moving Vandelles, Brooklyn's spookiest "surf" band, which rides into P.A.'s Lounge this Friday.

With only one full-length album (last year's self-released, fuzz-infested Del Black Aloha) and two EPs under their belt (including most recently, the poppier Summer Fling), the Vandelles have a history that goes back further than their catalog and recent SXSW acclaim suggests. Main songwriter/architect "Jasno" Suarez (guitar/vocals) and "Lulu" Lapin (bass/vocals) have logged enough shows in the back-biting New York/Brooklyn rock scene to have earned a little attitude, but fortunately they are still green enough to be as nice as pie. Talking from their publicist's office in New York, they even laugh as they catch themselves forgetting their stage names. No, kids, you're not the Cramps yet.

The Vandelles' name accurately conjures a cross between the downtown smarts of Martha and the Vandellas and the surliness of a B-label early '60s rock-and-roll band. Their roots go back to undergrad years at Rutgers in the early aughts, but by mid-decade, Brooklyn became a logical base for the quartet (drummer Honey Valentine and guitarist Christo Buffam, formerly of Boston's Sanguine Drone, round out the stylish outfit). Suarez was the last to make the transition to the city, reluctant to give up the waves around the New Jersey coastal town of Rumson. Unlike most of the Beach Boys, Suarez actually surfs. And along those waves and during long drives to shows around the New York metro area, a sound was building in his head.

"We are really trying to touch on this oceanic version of surf music that encompasses a larger feel than the beat sound of the early 1960s," says Suarez. By "oceanic" in this context, one might liken the ocean's incessant wash to the heaping shovels of sympathetic white noise evident in groups like Jesus and Mary Chain and Suicide — groups whose influence has no doubt had an impact on the Vandelles' dark, loud, noir-pop sound.

Early on, the Vandelles got a lot of funny looks when they told people they were interested in the primitive early surf of Link Wray and Davie Allan. Although the popularity of Wavves and Best Coast help the Vandelles describe their surf hook a little more easily, the more rocking Vandelles often got lumped into the "psych" genre just because they have a lot of fuzz pedals. "There was nothing else that we fit with," says Lapin. "I think actually being in that [scene] changed the way that we write a little bit and the way that we were going."

Sometimes defining a sound just requires a little bit of reclaiming. Suarez remembers watching a YouTube clip of the Beach Boys being interviewed during one of their first trips to England, when a journalist asked Brian Wilson to describe "surf music."

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Read more after the jump: http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/127819-vandelles-ride-a-different-kind-of-wave/#ixzz1a7IWY47E

Wolf & Harrison interview us before our Pop Montreal show

pop montreal this weekend at Cabaret du Mile-end

AGDFA picks us as a must see for Satruday check it out,

http://www.agooddayforairplay.com/2011/09/pop-montreal-2011-day-4-picks/

download our Cramps and Spacemen 3 covers free

Get tracks four and five from the Summer Fling EP, find the download links in the youtube page descriptions:

download the EP from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/summer-fling-single/id424979839

Fashion and Rock n Roll

Fashion's Night Out

This thursday we are playing an invite only event at the Hudson Hotel from 5-6pm, RSVP to pink@theproject-ny.com

We're in the studio again

After several months of slaving away we finally got into the studio to lay down the next record...check out lulu playing vibraphone for Good Boys Don't Lie...

MyNXNE makes it easy to find our shows at the festival

if you have an iPhone and you're going to be at the festival this weekend check this out...http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyNXNE-iPhone-app-for-NXNE-2011/151423844930157

Rock Edition interviews Christo

The Vandelles are the ultimate post-modern version of surf rock, replete with feedback squalls, killer reverb, and unbounded harmonies. And it’s loud. Alternately catchy and dissonant, their music straddles the line between nihilism and exuberance, and leaves your ears ringing. Often described as noir rock, listening to The Vandelles is like going to the beach on a sunny day to play with knives.

Rock Edition caught up with The Vandelles’ guitarist Christo Buffam right after they got back from SXSW, where they were the talk of the town.

check out the full interview...http://www.rockedition.com/interviews/interview-with-christo-buffam-of-the-vandelles/

The video for Summer Fling premiers today on Blackbook

get ready for summer, we are!

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/world-premiere-video-the-vandelles-summer-fling/25391

AOL Spinner has premiered our Summer Fling EP

Listen to the whole EP for free all week, all three singles and the two covers...http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/11

We be shooting a new viddy kiddies

That's Kirk maning the Shark...

I got to join the Pen 15 club, cause I'm cool like that...

Yesterday we had a sleepover and when we woke up our friend Kirk decided to film the girls playing some pranks on us boys, then we went over to a green screen studio and shot some fun surfing shots...this is going to be the best video ever, starring Katrina. Round two on monday!